To Guests' Chagrin, Hosts
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Marley Majcher has been to a lot of interesting dinner parties. But even she was caught by surprise when a host greeted her and her husband at the door -- with a basket of slippers.

"What if I hadn't gotten a pedicure?" the 33-year-old from Pasadena, Calif., remembers thinking when her friend asked her to remove her shoes before coming in. Her second thought: "What do Marc's socks look like?"